oyster feast users

[Alex T.]

I've noticed that when I feed Oyster Feast my skimmer will shut down and not pull consistent skimmate for over 24 hours. I shut it down for 10 minutes or so after feeding bit it still doesn't skim well. Anyone else experiencing this?

It's an ETSS. 900 on my 150 gallon tank....and it was only 2 ml of OysterFeast. I was told that downdrafts and Beckett Skimmers were very sensitive to oils in some foods, but 2 XML is almost nothing.

 

[fullmonti]

I have a 180 sps tank with a 30gal nps in same system. I feed them both some oyster feast & nps tank a lot of fauna marin foods. My skimmer will stop skimming some times too. I all ways chalked it up to fatty/oily foods. I will say I never feed that much oyster feast at one time, may be 1/2 -1 ml at most. You might try feeding less more often.

 

[fullmonti]

I got to thinking about this last night. I once counted how many drops in a ml, but I was using a thiner liquid. So I checked how many drops per ml on oyster feast, & I feed from 1 to 2 ml at a time as well. My skimmer is a Reeflo, & I haven't really timed it but seems like it only stops skimming for an hour or two some times. May be some one else can shed some light on the subject?
Jim

 

[Stanley-Reefer]

My Euroreefs do the same thing......conversly H2O life oyster eggs (frozen in cubes that "melt" away with nice chunks for the fishes too) has no effect on the skimmer!

 

[pipebash]

im not positive about this but I think reef nutrition puts something in their formulas specifically to shut down skimmer performance so as to not immediately pull the food out of the water, giving more time for food exposure to the corals.

 

[Pickupman66]

I see this when I feed teh tank regardless. my MRC MR2 will lose its foam head for a while. but within an hour or so, it is back doing its job.